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16 December 2022

In Ipoh, Making Dementia A Public Health Issue

The Bougainvillea City Dementia Cafe in Ipoh, Perak, holds monthly meetings where people with dementia, their families and friends, health and social care professionals, as well as the local community can come to interact and learn more about dementia.

16 December 2022

Malaysia

Why Some Doctors Quit: Guilt Over Patient Deaths From Bed Shortages

“When a patient dies in casualty because there are not enough beds, the person who really dies inside is the doctor who looked after them because that doctor knows that this shouldn't have happened. They have done their best” – Ipoh doctor.

13 December 2022

Malaysia

Exco: Ipoh GH Sought RM6.5 Million Last April For Upgrades

Perak exco A. Sivanesan, who visited HRPB’s emergency unit today, says he has discussed the ED's overcrowding problem with the hospital director, Perak state health director, and health minister.

13 December 2022

Malaysia

Ipoh GH Discussing With MOH On Boosting Emergency Department Capacity

HRPB acknowledges room for improvement in quality of care, like other hospitals. Experts Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman and Dr Christopher Lee express concern over the crisis at HRPB’s ETD.

12 December 2022

Malaysia

Critically Ill Patients Stranded Six Days In Ipoh GH’s Emergency Department

Non-Covid Red Zone cases in Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital’s ETD are waiting about 2-3 days for ward admission, even up to 6 days. Some very ill patients are unmonitored when stranded in “no man’s zone”, shunted between the busy emergency and ward teams. This is a long read.

29 July 2022

Malaysia

HRPB Doctor Under Police Probe Over Complaint On Ambulance Response

An external inquiry agreed that the paramedic who attended to Ipoh teacher Kumaraveloo Terpari “should have done” CPR, but reportedly said the MA wasn't in the "right mindset".

5 July 2022

Opinion

The Unseen Power Of Paramedics Over Patients’ Lives

The Health Ministry's National Committee on Resuscitation Training (NCORT) states in a 2012 guideline: “It is a duty of every doctor to attempt resuscitation on any patients with cardiac arrest.”

27 June 2022

Malaysia

Khairy: HRPB To Explain Contested Ambulance Response To Victim’s Kin

Khairy Jamaluddin says the proposed meeting tomorrow between the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital director and the victim’s brother in the April 13 case can be the “start of the conversation”.

24 June 2022

Malaysia

MMA Demands Independent Probe Into HRPB’s Ambulance Response

MMA says the death of a teacher in Ipoh, Perak, raises concern on whether proper procedure was followed in the emergency medical response.

24 June 2022

Malaysia

HRPB Defends Paramedic, Patient Pronounced Dead In 10-Minute Response Time

Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital claims its paramedic followed the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia’s guidelines, even though the guidelines do not list algor mortis (body turns cold) as a situation when CPR can be withheld from a cardiac arrest victim.

Tag: Ipoh

In Ipoh, Making Dementia A Public Health Issue

Why Some Doctors Quit: Guilt Over Patient Deaths From Bed Shortages

Exco: Ipoh GH Sought RM6.5 Million Last April For Upgrades

Ipoh GH Discussing With MOH On Boosting Emergency Department Capacity

Critically Ill Patients Stranded Six Days In Ipoh GH’s Emergency Department

HRPB Doctor Under Police Probe Over Complaint On Ambulance Response

The Unseen Power Of Paramedics Over Patients’ Lives

Khairy: HRPB To Explain Contested Ambulance Response To Victim’s Kin

MMA Demands Independent Probe Into HRPB’s Ambulance Response

HRPB Defends Paramedic, Patient Pronounced Dead In 10-Minute Response Time

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